Innovation In A Social News Startup: The Odyssey

A Startup That Just Raised $25 Million Is Like a College Newspaper on Steroids — and It’s Racking Up 30 Million Uniques a Month

Nathan McAlone | April 27, 2016

There is a graveyard full of startups that have said they want to “democratize” the media business, Odyssey CEO Evan Burns says.
The winning model seems so tantalizingly within reach: Build a big platform that allows a lot of fresh voices to contribute. No more gatekeepers, anyone who wants to write can.
[...] Even so, Odyssey seems to have hit upon one formula for distributed growth in media, and the startup has come out of nowhere to top 30 million monthly uniques using a business model that sits somewhere between a conglomerate of college newspapers and a social network. [...]

Source: http://theodysseyonline.com/

<more at http://www.businessinsider.com/this-startup-is-like-a-college-newspaper-on-steroids-and-its-racking-up-30-million-uniques-a-month-2016-4; related articles and links: http://theodysseyonline.com/ (Odyssey website) and http://www.prweek.com/article/1361353/online-content-hub-odyssey-posts-2000-articles-week-its-growing (Online content hub The Odyssey posts over 2,000 articles a week. And it's still growing. The Odyssey started as a student-run newspaper, but has tapped into the Millennial zeitgeist to rapidly expand. Kathleen Treganowan talks to managing editor Kate Waxler about what lies ahead. August 26, 2015)>